Mark Hollis, Emmanuel Macron, 2 Artists On Their Way To EXCELLENCE

    

This is NOT about Politics, just a matter of method...

MARK HOLLIS: The Laughing Stock Interview + The Creative Warrior by Trac...

   

I am talking here about the important things said in this interview.

You will also find a little review of the Tracy Porter's book around the end.

French Translation MARK HOLLIS Interview About Laughing Stock, Traductio...

   

Extraordinary how a Music recording technique may find common points
with how we would make a mosaic or a collage. We can visually “see” the Music. Some great Music! We are more than 30 years later, and we are still fascinated by such an amazing work/creation!

Mark Hollis: The Book SPIRIT OF TALK TALK, My Review, Ramblings...

  

I precise that this is NOT a sponsored video, 

but check in this book James Marsh's Art, it's beautiful!

MARK HOLLIS: Richard Skinner Interview Traduction Francaise, French Tran...

    

Pour les Francais, voici une petite traduction.

Mark Hollis - Tim Friese-Greene, Who Did What? John Clarkson Interview 0...

   

Who did what? 

If you have any verified answer, please, feel free to comment.

Yesterday's Favorite, Don't You Hate It? MARK HOLLIS Talk Talk Life's Wh...

     

Yesterday's favorite, don't you hate it?

Your opinion is welcome, here or on YouTube.

Was The Stage So Unsuited to MARK HOLLIS' Personality? Tim Friese-Greene...

   

A subject which touches me directly for many reasons.

Actually, it can touch any person who is an artist and has to perform in front of a lot of people, whatever it is: art, theater, music and more....

The questions of the past remain the questions of the present. 

In my next video, I will talk about something which shocked me even more. Some people asked me why I was so connected to events which happened a long time ago. I answered that these events determined what we are living now, in the present, and for sure will affect how the music industry will be done in the future, for the next generations. 

If we never talk about these things, nothing will never change and the quality won't be there. 

Actually, I don't really care what people say... If it is important to me, I bet it is also very important for others who feel like me.

The Happy Accidents In Art & Music, Mark Hollis, Tim Friese-Greene & Tal...

    

Don't sweat it, embrace it, or how to make the Art creation easier...

Mark Hollis' LAUGHING STOCK, The Virtue & Silencing The Scams, Melody Ma...

   

All is a matter of attitude...

I unfortunately don't see a lot of people deciding like Mark, like "Hollis" as we say... I am so surprised every day to see how much people can push further and further the limits of decency. The scams are becoming a way of living, someone will call you one morning to sell you something: "how to scam your neighbor, by a very courteous way" (it is an image, of course). And when I point out the fact that it is immoral, people don't seem to understand what I am talking about. I thought it was only in Los Angeles, but it seems that it affects the whole world. I started wondering if I was the only one to think that way, maybe am I old-fashioned? But when I read an article like this one, I am glad to see that maybe we are a very small club, but some people like me still exist. They are very rare, they are precious, I want to honor them. 

But by honoring them in videos, am I talking too much? Am I damaging the succinct aspect of their Art?

It seems that in this world, I don't know anymore how I am supposed to do...

As I was saying before, all is a matter of attitude, I just want to be sure to have the right one.

MARK HOLLIS 1984 Interview, French Translation FOLLOW-UP, It's My Life V...

   

This is the follow-up for the non-French people, some explanation about this interview. Something which we should have known before...

The Mark Hollis Talk Talk LAUGHING STOCK VIOLIN Magic Experience

I wanted to do kind of a subliminal experience, chasing the Beauty and the Magic, the imperceptible, and it turned out being a little quirky, crazy, and finally really comical.

I am still laughing and still amazed to have got a few drops of Magic in spite of the circumstances.

We must thank David Strother who played his instrument from the beginning to the end, it was not an easy thing to do.

Violin on Mark Hollis or Talk Talk MUSIC, Morally Correct? Ramblings...

I think that I just wanted to honor the Music and the people that I love.

Music is meant to be played, and as of genius it can be, it is not supposed to remain locked under glass like a master piece in a famous museum and being forgotten there...

I wanted to see or rather hear how it would resonate live on my boulevard in Los Angeles, even though it is not a Los Angeles Music.

But when we know how much work and thoughts Mark Hollis and Tim Friese-Greene did put on the Laughing Stock album, we can start wondering if adding a violin or any other instrument on the top of that is such a good idea and morally correct...?

I was rambling yesterday night, and today, it was my violinist David Strother who started rambling by email as well.

What are we supposed to do?

Still now, we don't know, I am not even sure that something of Talk Talk or Mark Hollis will be played tomorrow. I want to be correct, but it makes me feel very sad too... 

I just wanted to know how it was like to hear this music for real.

Mark Hollis The AFTER THE FLOOD HYPNOTIZING Effect Talk Talk Laughing Stock

Am I the only one to be hypnotized by a song? 

But it is not any song, I suggest that you sit by listening to it, it is more safe :-)

I apologize for the wrong pronunciation of "hypnotized" on my video, I was probably so mesmerized that I didn't remember how to speak English! :-)

It is not easy to talk about things like that, because I take the risk to be considered as crazy or totally eccentric (which is actually the case, it seems, according to many people). But I thought, if at least one person has the same feeling that I have here, maybe this won't be so stupid.

There are so many things that we ignore about human nature. After all, Mark Hollis studied psychology at the University, and even if he finally worked in Music, it doesn't mean that he didn't have the time to learn how to hypnotize people with sounds... Or maybe he has this talent without even knowing it?

I am trying here to seize the imperceptible. Isn't it what Art is about? Isn't it what Paul Klee was trying to do on his paintings? I am trying to explain on images here what I can hear and see, and feel in Mark Hollis and Talk Talk Musics, but I have difficulties to find the words, because maybe the words don't even exist for that...